Thread: So WebAssembly is going to be a thing someday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mario F. View Post
    Have you ever really looked at a single web page source with a critical eye? The fact that we are perfectly content with filling the whole bloody thing with 3 or 4 different dialects[...]
    I am wrong.

    The discussion lead me to take a better look at the current documentation on Github. There's still no draft or any other type of standards proposal, just early design documents. But it clearly defines web client "scripts" as external modules to the webpage. So web client code is actually going to be decoupled from the markup. The markup will only import and reference these modules where necessary. The modules will be completely self contained, down to the DOM manipulation and management.

    So this is in fact a tremendous improvement over current web development practices and goes well beyond just providing more programming languages to the web.

    I was wrong.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.

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    I think you are undervaluing your abilities. A general feeling of unease -- that fear I will never get there -- is perfectly common in the early stages of learning. And in terms of computer science, early stages means a few years. But the desire of learning that you show is not just useful to crowd these forums with foolish questions; it is the quality that separates good developers from bad ones. So you actually have little to fear.
    This actually meant a lot me. Thank you, Mario. I kind of needed that. It's hard to believe in yourself sometimes.

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